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On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 00:05, Kai Hendry wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 05:12:05 +0100, Kevin Bailey wrote:tax-payer pounds which are being sent over to MS for shite software this is stupidity of the highest order.Microsoft is the operating system. I am sure it does not provide the submarine management systems. So what serious institution wrote software for the MS platform I wonder?
it looks like its the command and control system - could it get any worse :o( snip-------------------- Gerald Wilson writes: I used to work for BAE Systems, within the division which developed Command Systems for naval warships. Four years ago, I spurred active debate about the future software foundations for these systems. As a long-time assessor of innovative technology, I advocated investigation of, and adoption of, open source UNIX foundations, such as BSD and GNU/Linux. Given that the company’s command system products had already been successfully migrated to run on proprietary UNIX, I viewed this as a natural strategic evolution, expected to be low in cost and risk. However, BAE had undergone several structural changes. One consequence was that computer resources were owned and controlled by BAE's outsourcing partner (Computer Sciences Corporation). CSC's published policy was to standardise BAE's computers to use only Microsoft's proprietary software. snip--------------------
Accenture? ;) Windows only fails 8% of the time. http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/09/16/1254230.shtml?tid=201&tid=218 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.
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